Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual fee is $10 for individual membership, and $18 for a "Husband-and-Wife" membership. $24 will protect the employee's spouse and any number of children under the age of 19. New additions to the family will be made members one month after birth...
Commenting upon criticisms that the lowest paid workers, the maids, after twenty years service may receive pensions amounting to as little as four dollars a month, University officials stated that most of these employees are married women whose earnings are not the sole support of their families...
...computed that if a maid were to start work at the age of twenty-five and continue until the retirement age, she would receive a pension of $14 a month or $168 a year. However, University officials agreed that relatively few maids start to work for Harvard at the age of twenty-five and that an employee receiving the same salary as the hypothetical maid in question would after forty years under the federal plan receive $300 a year or 75 per cent of his salary...
...makes clear both the good intentions of the University and the inadequacy of its pension system. Despite the fact that the administration contributes 126% as much as the employees, a maid who pays premiums for twenty years may at the end of that time receive only four dollars a month. Such a small return is merely a caricature of the security which a pension system is supposed to provide. It returns to the recipient just enough money to supply carfare to the relief bureau...
...matter of plain statistical fact the provision which the University makes for its lowest paid employees does not equal the pensions set by the Social Security Act for workers on the same low wage level. Thus a maid who receives a pension of ten dollars a month after thirty-five years under the Harvard plan, would under the Social Security Act receive twenty-five dollars a month...